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[Wired News] A tough California bill that would have prohibited companies and individuals from using deceptive "pretexting" ruses to steal private information about consumers was killed after determined lobbying by the motion picture industry, Wired News has learned.

MPAA is now "buying" laws ... or in this case: it buys the right to erase them. Previously I only heard that companies buy out other companies (the competition) just to shut them down. Now the can even do this to laws and bills. I doubt that this is legal, but hey: you're in the 21st century! _Everything_ is for sale, isn't it? :->